The Board has determined that no new and material evidence has been presented to reopen the RO's 1964 decision that self-inflicted injuries of April 23, 1963 were not incurred in the line of duty.
The deciding factor: The provided evidence does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim that the veteran's self-inflicted injuries on April 23, 1963 were incurred in the line of duty.
- Claimed conditions
- scarring from burns, amputation of left leg, right knee disorder (secondary to amputation), back disorder (secondary to amputation)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2006
- Citation
- 0636019
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Decisions by this judge: 1,458 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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